How to add an artwork to the gallery?

If you are a registered, but not subscribed, member you will have a bit more trouble submitting artwork than the others. You will have to find place on the web to store your full images first, since you have to link to those instead of simply upload them to our server. Some more about that here.

Step One
Navigate to "My artwork". You can find the link at the top of the page in your memberbar. You will have log in first. Once you get there you will see a form displayed in the first window of that page. It says: 'Submit artwork'. The first block informs you of our rules. Make sure you read them carefully since they indicate what goes and doesn't go at GFXartist.

Now enter the title of the artwork and select a category. Categorizing your art isn't easy, make sure you read the guidelines so you have an idea what each category stands for. Once you've filled in the data and indicated you read the rules, click 'Create artwork item'.

Step Two
You're now at the Artwork Item edit page. There are several blocks on this page. Make sure you finish one block and save it if applicable before you continue. The first block let's you add additional information. Here are the fields:

Done. Click save, if you proceed without saving the data will be lost and you have to enter it all again.

Step Three
Now for non-GFXplus members the tricky part starts. You will need three images for your Artwork Item. A small thumbnail (64x64 pixels) and large thumbnail (200x150 pixels) and the artwork image (with a maximum width of 716 pixels).

You can simply upload the thumbnails. One by one, so click the browse button, locate the image on your drive and select it. Now click upload to move the image to our server. When the page loads again, the thumbnail should be displayed where you uploaded it. If it doesn't, check the top of the page to see if there was an error. If it displays a broken image, the image format might be wrong. JPEGs need to be saved as regular 'baseline' JPEGs, other compressions will not work in browsers.

Repeat the process for the large thumbnail. If everything went okay, there should now be two thumbnails in the upload thumbnails block.

On to the full artwork. Unsubscribed members will have to enter a link to the image on the web here. So upload your image to your host (i.e. photobucket.com). Then locate your image, the path you need will look something like this: http://www.host.com/mydir/image.jpg. Do not link to html files, or directories, or other sites, but directly to the image. Also don't enter a local path on your hard drive, that won't work.

If this all sounds puzzling, I suggest you subscribe. For GFXplus members adding the artwork is as easy as uploading a thumbnail.

Step Four
Well the hard part is over. If you have additional image material you can link to that too using the 'Add more images or downloads' window. Here you can enter links and details to other images, movies, downloads, sites, anything. Use it to add close ups of your work, or perhaps a link to the reference material. Click link to add it and you will see the result as well as the form again to link yet another file.

Step Five
We're done. At the very bottom of the page are two options. 'Publish' and 'Delete'. Don't confuse the two. Pressing Publish will submit your image to the galleries. Pressing Delete will remove the Artwork Item. Once Published you can no longer delete the work, you will have to Unpublish it first.

You can manage your artwork though your 'My artworks' page. You will find a list of your work there, both the published items as well as the unpublished 'draft' items. From there you can always edit, unpublish or publish works. You can also still change the category or fix your images.

All done
There's, not too hard right. You'll get the hang of it once you have submitted more work. You'll also find out that you can use UBB code in your description and that you can have quite some fun matching your full artwork image to the background of the page.

Should you need more assistence, feel free to contact support@gfxartist.com. During the weekend they may take some time to respond, but are more than willing you help you out.